Europe Programme - [04/16/2008]
The CIDOB Foundation is to be the coordinator for an international project funded by the European Commission's Framework Research Programme. The Commission's research department has contacted CIDOB with the aim of commencing negotiations for a project with a budget of almost 1,200,000 €, involving three years of work.
The project, known as EU4Seas, will be executed by institutions in Estonia, France, Italy, Iceland, Turkey and the Ukraine, and will be directed by CIDOB and coordinated by Dr. Jordi Vaquer, the head of the Europe Programme.
EU4Seas aims to study the impact of EU policies on multilateral cooperation around Europe's enclosed seas ─ the Baltic, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and Caspian. During the three-year joint research project, the EU4Seas team will examine this impact on the areas of security and good governance, energy and transport, environment and maritime policy, and the four freedoms of the common market (free circulation of persons, goods, services and capital).
The 7th Framework Programme is the main support instrument for research and development activities in virtually all the scientific disciplines. It represents one of the largest research support programmes in the world, and there is stiff competition for organisations wishing to participate, given that the Programme includes the participation not only of the leading research centres and universities in the EU, but also those of many of the third countries taking part in the Programme.